An Escapee Was Found Inside the Fence of Stiles Unit in Beaumont
In Beaumont, Texas (KTRK), the Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials has found a detainee who disappeared after a routine count at the Stiles Unit in Beaumont. The TDCJ reported that on Tuesday morning, authorities announced that Zachary Myrick, 42, just went Missing In Action.
According to a published post by ABC 13, Myrick was found momentarily afterward within the surrounding fence. Though, it wasn’t immediately clear if Myrick was attempting to escape. In accordance with what the record shows, Myrick was pronounced guilty of his two counts of aggravated robbery with a destructive weapon in Harris County in 2009, resulting in him to be serving a 24-year sentence.
42-Year-Old Texas Man Was Found Inside the Fence of Stiles Unit in Beaumont42-Year-Old Texas Man Was Found Inside the Fence of Stiles Unit in Beaumont (Photo: ABC 13)
42-Year-Old Texas Man Was Found Inside the Fence of Stiles Unit in Beaumont
The TDCJ’s recent report found that a Huntsville convict took advantage of short-handed security forces and flaws in the security system to escape with a Texas prison transport bus to allegedly take Myrick for a medical appointment earlier this year. Related to what Myrick was trying to do, Gonzalo Lopez, a convicted murderer, escaped from a prison transport bus near Centerville.
A few weeks later, Lopez died in a shootout with the police after murdering Mark Collins and his four grandchildren. But, for the first time, we saw a glimpse of the prison bus transportation that failed to hold arrest prisoner Gonzalo Lopez before he escaped and executed another crime.
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